Justin Cider
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The team performed worse with him in it that is the other side of the numbers. Ole clearly didn’t plan for him coming it was a last minute sh*t he’s going to sign for City panic buy. There was no thought about how to play him, his last 2 clubs played him as part of a front 2 we were never going to play that way and on his own up top he struggled as did those around him.
Ten Hag gave him playing time and he made him part of the team despite his desire to leave in the summer but Ronaldo kept breaking rules and had to be punished.
I like Ronaldo but him coming back was a disaster and the way he behaved on the way out was incredibly unprofessional and tarnished his legacy at the club.
If you get the chance to sign somebody of the standing of Ronaldo you have to consider it, and worry about how you're going to fit him in when you've signed him, not before, it was a punt, and you can maybe say it didn't work, but it gave Rashford, Martial, Sancho et al another 12/18 months game time experience playing for United without having the full responsibility of having to score all the goals, and we may well benefit from that going forward.
EtH might have given him play-time, but he didn't do him any favours how he used him, or how he set the team up around him, it was almost as though he hoped he would fail so he would have reason to leave him out - EtH's way or the highway. I'm the boss mate.
He broke the rules once when he left the ground early, and that with several other players let's not forget, the second-time he was a breaking point after EtH tried to humiliate him by asking him to come on for a few minutes in a game already won and if him telling his side of the story in the ill-advised interview(he had no control on when it would be broadcast), and a telling a few home-truths that got certain people at Old Trafford jumpy, maybe he didn't have that much of a legacy to start with.